Maritime Italy is alive and well and playing a solid role in the world.
Italy is a global economic power, home to rock solid industrial shipowners,
lively brokers, first class shipbuilders and an expanding technological core
which is delivering expertise globally.

This year Italy will become the south Europe hub for growing LNG imports,
with the world’s first offshore gas terminals. And notwithstanding the Costa
Concordia incident and fall out, it will deliver the world’s best cruise
ships. Its shipowners will quietly continue to move goods cleanly and
efficiently around the world, while building and strengthening links with
growing shipping powers in Asia.

Mare Forum Italy is much more than about Italian shipping.

It is about the global shipping industry and all the factors which make up
that complex industry. It is about Italy’s place in the global shipping
complex and the influence of the global shipping complex on Italy and its
maritime companies.

On MAY 14, Mare Forum will return to the lively city of Sorrento where the
8th Mare Forum Italy 2011 will create the opportunity for many of the
leaders of the Italian and international shipping community to square up to
Italian and global players in the shipping world.

Mare Forum’s Maritime Italy has become an annual focal point for Italy’s
maritime players to meet and debate the future. Sorrento has become used to
hosting the lively and vivid arguments, the social gatherings and the annual
arrival of the cream of Italy’s maritime industry leaders which Mare Forum
brings. Join them in May 14 for good news, good ideas, and good company.

Leading Italian and international shipowners, CEOs from shipping, trading
and brokerage companies; key investors in shipping, bankers, consultants and
entrepreneurs; classification societies, financial institutions, regulators
and the media will gather at this prestigious conference where an exchange
of views, visions and valuable information will make this forum another
unforgettable and meaningful experience.